WEEK FIVE: MINGLE

[cluedin]

WEEK FIVE

OCCUPANCY: 23

Rise and shine, little monsters. A new week is waiting just for you. The events of yesterday may have been hard to stomach, but time heals all wounds, after all. The damages the house has incurred over the last week have been reverted and the staff is hard at work fulfilling their roles in this mansion. A piping hot breakfast is served in the dining room promptly at 7am, every square inch of floor and furniture has been cleaned spotless, and Pumpkin is...probably around tending to the animals outside. As you exit your rooms on this lovely morning, guests will find that the barrier leading upstairs has diminished, and a new floor has been opened to explore.

For anyone who ventures into the ballroom, a new change may become apparent. Should you choose to look at the plaques long enough, two images will flicker and change sporadically. While Phoenix's portrait remains the same, on occasion it will change to an unrecognizable figure, flames surrounding the charred flesh. Likewise, Four's portrait looks just like herself, though if you blink you may miss the sharp knives protruding through her chest, rivers of blood dripping down her front. There is no rhyme and reason for the change...though perhaps it serves as a reminder to those who remain.

Additionally, the house rules have been moved from the ballroom and back into the hallway, mounted in the entryway as they were.

You know what to expect by now. Once a week, one of your own transforms into someone unrecognizable. But it's hard to empathize with someone without experiencing the hardship for yourself, isn't it? Worry not. Starting today, from the moment you wake, you will find that you yourself have changed into something unrecognizable. Claws, fangs, fur, scales, extra limbs, extra mouths...the changes are numerous as your monster form takes a hold of you. Oh but it's alright! It's just the physical appearance, after all. You're still yourself inside...but it may be hard to believe that as the week goes on.

Some of you may be able to brush these strange changes aside. Others of you may find yourself struggling to understand who you really are. And others of you will find even more problems on hand. Is it your imagination, or did the mansion grow several degrees colder? You just can't quite to seem to warm up. While you may normally be comfortable sharing blankets with your fellow guests, you now find yourself feeling a bit greedy and unwilling to share...well, anything, really. The insatiable greed requires you to take and take and take, no matter if you require the necessities you're taking. And yet even as you take, and especially as you consume, you find that you're never quite satisfied, belly never quite full regardless of how much you eat. That's troubling, isn't it?

You may experience only some of these events. Then again, maybe you're unlucky and you're experiencing all of these events at different points in time. Time is of the essence, however, and come Monday at noon a rustling crackle of static can be heard from overhead. Try as you might, you won't be able to find the speakers but a message will play loud and clear for all.

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[goldpeony]

[Jiujiu.......

It really shouldn't hit like it does; he has no real attachment to any of this considering there's no memory there for him. There's... nothing, honestly, and maybe that's why it does feel worse. It feels like people have so much more than him when they have the memories, the ones he thinks they take for granted.

But he thinks about trying something before that didn't get much of a reaction out of him then. Had he even thanked her for that? Had he bothered to even thank her? Probably not. His eyes sting, but he won't cry because he already did that on the boats, and that's shameful.

So he just rubs his eyes with his arm.]

[pornography]

Hm, I'd say I'm a demon.

[shortforever]

[He suspects nothing.]

Yeah, I guess it's pretty demonic.

[pornography]

I'd say the horns are a dead giveaway!

[burningrescue]

. . .

[Well, he really does seem to listen. He just leans against his crutch, eyes narrowed, taking this in.]

You think when people say we should work together, we're pretending to be perfect angels?

[survivaltricks]

[BECKS KNOWS I NEVER SAY NO TO PCS]

[survivaltricks]

As though it wasn't an anime before.

[comes a voice from behind Shima. here is Akira, sipping coffee, studying the posters like he wasn't the one responsible for plastering them all over the place]

[goldpeony]

You already did. [He pushes down once into Chuuya's back, but then the weight and shadow is suddenly gone.] I wouldn't care if something happened to you if you're being an idiot, but he would.

Don't you think he's had enough after the last few weeks? You moron.

[He brushes off his robes.]

[pornography]

[ opens his mouth

and then thinks about his life. fighting demons. with the son of satan (sup mammon). ]

Where's my beach episode!

a

[survivaltricks]

[guess who is here feeding the ducks! it's Akira!!]

[he's also throwing duck food at Toi, so congratulations on being sufficiently duck-like enough to get free food]

closet

[survivaltricks]

[HE IS JUT. . . GONNA OPEN THE CLOSET??? so now there's a teenage boy with a pair of black cat ears and a sleek black cat tail staring at jin ling as he makes bird noises??]

[???]

Oh.

I thought there was a dead animal in here.

[dead. dying. whatever]

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[hamaoned]

[ not. a single word about the jacket as it gets chucked aside. not a single one.

instead have a small child with a beanie with his doggie ears sticking out (there are holes cut out for them) and bundled up so that he's nice and toasty. very warm. so blessed to have dog fur. ]

Maybe you should start piecing things together so they can fit.

i.

[survivaltricks]

[who DOESN'T want to become a hobo in the woods, honestly. Akira watches those items float for a few moments, cat ears and tail flicking curiously as he does so, before he speaks]

Do. . . do you want help with that?

Wait-- better question. Why are you going camping in the woods?

[pornography]

[ it's just a normal jacket. yep. not one they've seen before nope ]

Ahh, but I don't want to alter too much?

[shortforever]

No, not that part. That's you guys earnestly trying.

But when people are saying "That's horrible, I can't believe someone would do that" like I'm some monster, the 'I would never stoop that low' isn't said but it's implied.

[shortforever]

[He'll let out one more 'ow' before he pushes himself up to his feet.]

Yes, he's had enough! That's why I did it! Because he would have done it himself otherwise! He already felt guilty enough over everything that happened with Dazai, so he didn't need to carry that burden too. Especially since it sounds like the motives were fake all along, and he would've killed for nothing.

[shortforever]

You could still be a goat.

[Demons are goats tho, so it tracks.]

all week!!

[survivaltricks]

[Akira might be recovering and slowly learning how to walk on a prosthesis, but he has (and will be) relying on a crutch for optimum mobility for a while yet. so when he sees Galo attempting to climb down the stairwell. . .]

Do you want some tips?

[he looks mostly the same, only he's sporting a pair of fluffy black cat ears and a sleek panther-like tail that swishes behind him]

[burningrescue]

[He's still listening, but that doesn't mean he's going to agree to whatever Chuuya says. He doesn't look like he agrees with this.]

So you think most of us would've done what you did?

[survivaltricks]

Cancelled because it was too raunchy for the children.

[sage nods]

[shortforever]

Maybe not for that particular motive, no. But everyone's got something they'd kill for.

[hamaoned]

[ he asked for this.

ken truly asked for this so here he is being dragged away to go outside. he's fine with this?? he really doesn't have a choice, huh? ]

Oh, okay....

[hamaoned]

[ !!!!!! ]

It talked!

[ cue ken jumping back and yelping like a scared dog all at once. he might instinctively bark a few times at the goo as it becomes more person-shaped. this is too much. ]

[burningrescue]

The way I see it, they've been giving us motives every week. But only three people have tried to kill somebody when they weren't being forced to by the house. Nobody else has.

So that view of yours - I just don't see how you can back that up!

[kazokun]

Is that this is? Is this flirting?

[ Imagine the butterfly meme
and then imagine Ayabe crushing the butterfly with his bare hands ]

You— like like me?

[ We're having this conversation AGAIN and he is mortified ]